Alok Yadav

Alok Yadav

Associate Professor

Literature: Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian

Alok Yadav teaches courses on Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial and World Literature, such as Engl 450 (Eighteenth-Century English Novel), Engl 404 (The Augustan Age), Engl 350 (The Idea of a World Literature) and special topics courses on the African and South Asian Novel and on Empire and English Literature. He received his PhD from Cornell University, and taught at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago before joining the English Department at George Mason. He is the author of Before the Empire of English: Literature, Provinciality, and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2004) and has published essays and reviews on issues of nationalism, empire, eighteenth-century British literary culture, and fictionality in Clio, Criticism, Cultural Critique, ELH, Literature Compass, Modern Philology, Novel, and Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research.

Current Research

He is currently working on a book on Kipling's Kim and political criticism of literature.